The Sign of Wine (1 of 7)
Series: Seven Signs of Christ
Jeff Strite
John 2:1-11
OPEN: The Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn had a problem - motorists weren't coming to a complete stop at stop signs. So in 2007 the Mayor came up with a creative solution. He added a second, smaller octagonal sign the town's 50 or so stop signs that read:
''STOP
And smell the roses''
''STOP
No really, you gotta stop''
''STOP
Or I'm Telling Your Mom,''
''STOP
In the naaaame of love.''
And - it worked!!! People stopped at the stop signs. The additional signs were so imaginative and humorous people laughed and obeyed the Stop sign. Everybody laughed... except the Illinois Department of Transportation which deemed the signs violations of the Federal Uniform Traffic Control Act, and threatened to withhold funds if the signs weren't removed. Sadly, the Mayor had to comply. (Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader, p. 253)
The Mayor's believed that if he could just get the motorists to pay attention, then he could get his message across. The message... STOP! It was an important message... he was using special signs to get it across.
Signs have always been used to get messages across to people. Whether square, rectangular, triangular, or octagonal... there is a message tied to the sign. Sometimes the sign's message is very important and even critical.
In our text this morning we're told: ''This (changing water into wine) was the first of his SIGNS, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.'' John 2:11
One scholar went through the Gospels and found at least 35 different miracle/signs that Jesus did during His ministry. But John explained at the end of his Gospel: ''Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.'' (John 21:25) In other words, Jesus probably did a whole lot more MI ...
Series: Seven Signs of Christ
Jeff Strite
John 2:1-11
OPEN: The Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn had a problem - motorists weren't coming to a complete stop at stop signs. So in 2007 the Mayor came up with a creative solution. He added a second, smaller octagonal sign the town's 50 or so stop signs that read:
''STOP
And smell the roses''
''STOP
No really, you gotta stop''
''STOP
Or I'm Telling Your Mom,''
''STOP
In the naaaame of love.''
And - it worked!!! People stopped at the stop signs. The additional signs were so imaginative and humorous people laughed and obeyed the Stop sign. Everybody laughed... except the Illinois Department of Transportation which deemed the signs violations of the Federal Uniform Traffic Control Act, and threatened to withhold funds if the signs weren't removed. Sadly, the Mayor had to comply. (Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader, p. 253)
The Mayor's believed that if he could just get the motorists to pay attention, then he could get his message across. The message... STOP! It was an important message... he was using special signs to get it across.
Signs have always been used to get messages across to people. Whether square, rectangular, triangular, or octagonal... there is a message tied to the sign. Sometimes the sign's message is very important and even critical.
In our text this morning we're told: ''This (changing water into wine) was the first of his SIGNS, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.'' John 2:11
One scholar went through the Gospels and found at least 35 different miracle/signs that Jesus did during His ministry. But John explained at the end of his Gospel: ''Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.'' (John 21:25) In other words, Jesus probably did a whole lot more MI ...
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